Michael Chiklis: 8/23/16

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Michael Chiklis is an actor and a musician best known for his work on FX's The Shield and Gotham on FOX. He has a new album coming out called Influence which you can pre-order by clicking here. Today, Michael talks about the commencement speech he gave at his daughter's graduation this past spring (5:00), growing up in New England with a working class father and a mother who aspired to be in the Opera (12:00), and why he became filled with rage when he auditioned for the lead role in FX's The Shield (24:00). Plus, Michael discusses the performance aspect of performance art and how he channels his energy like a great athlete to live up to and completely in the moment (38:00). The two round out their conversation by discussing Mike's latest venture, a new album called Influence, and why the theatrical bands of the 70's and 80's made an impression on him as a young actor (45:00). Shownotes: Slate.com/TheMoment Twitter: @BrianKoppelman Leave a Review: itunes.com/themoment The Moment is brought to you by Freshbooks. Small business owners, FreshBooks wants to make dealing with your day-to- day paperwork ridiculously simple and quick. For your 30 day free trial, and all the simple and quick cloud accounting you can handle, go to FreshBooks.com/MOMENT and enter MOMENT in the “how did you hear about us” section. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Hey, this is the moment.
0:11.2	I'm Brian Koppelman.
0:12.0	Thanks for listening. I haven't done a show in a while, as you know,
0:15.4	but today's guest reached out because we've been trying to get this together for the last year and when he said he could do it,
0:21.4	I was like, fuck yeah yeah let's go and it's
0:23.8	Michael chickless so dude thank you so much for being here that's pleasure to be
0:26.7	here Brian obviously you guys know chick from all the incredible stuff from
0:31.6	wired to the commish to The Shield, you know, to Gotham, which he's on now and his
0:37.1	rock band, Michael Chickless Band, and his huge and great presence on Twitter.
0:43.0	But dude, you were so nice to me when I was a young guy.
0:46.8	And you don't know.
0:48.1	Yeah.
0:48.9	Oh, cool.
0:50.0	I'm hearing this.
0:51.4	It was like 96. I was 96 and you or 97 you were living at the Phillips Club on like Broadway in might have been in it, was it 98?
1:04.0	When were you living on Broadway in 67th, near Tower Records?
1:07.9	That was 97.
1:09.5	Yes.
1:10.5	That was 97, I was doing a Broadway show here.
1:13.2	And you would walk your dog really early in the morning.
1:15.8	Yes.
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